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Discover Tintoretto's works in Dorsoduro district

The Gallerie dell’Accademia, established during the Napoleonic era (1807) for the purpose of creating an educational collection for the training of young artists, offer an extraordinary compendium of Venetian and Veneto art, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. The works in this great museum come partly from the religious congregations and the Venetian magistrature (public offices) suppressed during the Napoleonic domination, and partly from a number of bequests and donations. There are also many and important works by Tintoretto in the Gallerie, which originally came from confraternities (Scuole), churches and various magistrature. There are about twenty works of the highest quality, covering a wide time span in the artist’s production, from the astonishing The Miracle of the Slave of 1548, painted for the Scuola Grande di San Marco, which brought Jacopo to the attention of the city, to pictures dating to the end of the 1570s. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary, the exhibition organised here, The Young Tintoretto, is dedicated to the masterpieces of the artist’s first decade of activity, and to the artistic and cultural context in which the artist began his career; it presents works both the Gallerie dell’Accademia’s own collections and important loans. Six other works from the Gallerie are on display at the Palazzo Ducale and/or Washington◄ exhibitions. After the exhibition, the set of Tintoretto paintings will find a new location on the first floor of the museum, within the context of the refurbishment currently under way to create the “Grandi Gallerie”.

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The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the National Gallery of Art in Washington present from 7 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 an international research project to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto, one of the giants of sixteenth-...